And here I was, thinking we'd be stuck reusing that same old piece of art that came out alongside the announcement of the standalone DayZ game. Not so! Creator Dean Hall has posted a batch of unfinished screenshots on the development blog.

Hall notes that these images are showing only basic texture work and initial lighting passes and were taken at Normal graphic settings. Even if these are only medium-resolution textures, seeing fleshed-out building interiors is a nice sight in a place like Chernarus.

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